Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
The subtitle of this recording is an explicit reference to Rossi’s social and professional position as an early seventeenth-century Jewish...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 6/1998
Peter Serkin had a long-standing association with Takemitsu (who died in 1996), and the composer was present during the recording...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1997
When Michael Collins has given so many inspired performances in concert of Mozart’s supreme masterpiece, it is surprising that we...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2000
Affinity with the German repertory, we are told, led to this French trio's choice of the name Wanderer. Since their...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1995
Poor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): little did the 23-year-old composer realise that, in relinquishing the wholesale copyright to his 1898 cantata...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2003
With Vol. 7 of his nine-volume set of the Beethoven sonatas under his belt, John O'Conor approaches the end of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1993
It is a familiar problem of Austro-German late-romanticism that lesser composers often produced works as large-scale as those of their...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1989
There are great piano records, and there are great piano records. One thinks of Horowitz toying with Czerny (RCA, 11/91),...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
Liszt’s songs, a much underrated part of his output, find a most sympathetic interpreter in Philip Langridge. He has the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1996
Having just counted 22 bassoon concertos by Vivaldi in my record collection I am chastened to find that not one...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1987
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
'This is a treasure trove of information, thoroughly recommended'
The tabletop ‘music centre’ may be just a distant memory, but where do you start when you want to...
Tim Parry explores the legacy of Jorge Bolet’s Decca recordings
Rob Cowan on collections devoted to two pianists, a cellist and a composer
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